How to make Gerrymander the lizard- a Free Mesh Avatar for Second Life and Opensim

Difficullty: EASY.

Gerry the lizard is a tiny avatar, about 1 meters tall. The eyes focus and
follow the camera, and the avatar is 10% mesh so it is flexible, too.

Download the zip
file to get the avatar pieces your need, or click each piece that is laid out in
this tutorial one at a time.

Upload the Avatar

You will need to download the DAE file or locate the LIZARD.dae file in the
zip folder.

Upload the avatar

Log into your world and upload the mesh lizard. I use Firestorm viewer
for this tutorial.

Browse to the lizard.dae file and select it.

Select Avatar shape in the pulldown and give your lizard a name.

Now pick the Physics tab and select "Lowest"

Click the Upload Options tab

Select a size of about 0.2. This will save on upload costs. The
size of your avatar cannot be changed by this. It sets the size of the
prim when you are not wearing it.

Also check the Include Skin Weights and Include Joint Positions
checkboxes, and enter an offset of -0.1870 in the Z offset box.

Now click the Calculate Fee button. It should cost you $72 lindens. After it
calculates, click Upload.

Now locate Gerrymander in your inventory and rez it on the ground

Eyes

There is no need to move any parts, like the eyes. They will position
themselves automatically when the lizard is worn.

You will need to add two textures and the avatar will be complete except for
the tail.

Download this eye texture and upload it to Second Life or Open Sim.

Put the eye texture on both eyes. You will need to drag it onto
the outer and again on the pupil area, twice.

Body Texture

Click any picture below to get the largest, full sized 1024 X 1024 picture.

Now download one of these skins and and upload it to Second Life or Open
Sim.

I chose the purple one. You will need to drag it onto the different
white part of the left foot, because I screwed up the material there. Just drag
it twice again.

You can now take Gerry back to inventory

Time to wear GerryMander the lizard

Right click the lizard in your inventory and select Attach To. Pick any
attachment point that is unlikely to be used, such as stomach. The default
is "Right Hand", and that is likely to be used by other attachments, so pick
something else.

Your avatar will shrink down and look awful! That is because you are
wearing all your old prim boots shows, and clothing.

Take off ALL your prim objects.

Now go into Avatar->Appearance and click the cog wheel at the bottom

Select New Clothes-> New Alpha

This menu will appear:

Give it a name and save it.

How to make the flexible, twitchy tail

Now rez a box to make a tail

Set the box to shape Cylinder

Set the size to 0.075 X 0.075 X 0.5 meters

Set the Taper X and Taper Y to 1.00

It should look like this:

You will need one of these three textures:

Gop ahead and upload your chice and apply it to the tail.

Also set the Repeat (V) to 2.0:

Now go to the Contents tab and click "New Script"

Double click the New Script that appears to open it in the editor.

Now delete the contents of that script and add this script, or download it in
LSL format from this download link: